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Rockhole Dreaming
Museum sized
Certified Value: This artwork comes with a certified formal valuation for the said amount by a N.C.J.V (Fine Arts) Specialist Valuer, who is approved to provide formal valuation certification for Australian painting, drawing, prints, sculpture after 1880; Photography after 1900; Indigenous art for the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program http://www.arts.gov.au/tax_incentives/cgp.
Auction Record: $59,250.00
Hail-Storm at Kaakuratintja, Synthetic polymer paint on linen, WT0204135 on the reverse, 153 x 183 cm, Est: $50,000-70,000, Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 25/07/2005, Lot No. 83,
Recent Sales:
15-09-2006 Tali AETJUW5434MM 300 x 150cm Art Equity $50,500.00.
19-10-2007 Tali AETJUW9686MM 120 x 180cm Art Equity $30,000.00
The mysterious “Tingari” is a creation myth that refers to a group of ancestral elders who embarked upon periodic epic journeys through vast tracts of the Gibson/Western Deserts. As they traveled, they performed sacred and mystical rituals which opened up new land. The adventures of these Tingari groups are enshrined in numerous song and painting cycles which still inform the Pintupi people today.
With no written language, the songs and paintings of the Tingari Cycle form an integral part of the “passing down” of the ancient laws, Dreamings and Culture to the next generation of initiates known as the Punyunyu. The Pintupi were a nomadic people who wandered over incredible distances from west of Lake MacKay in Western Australia to just east of Kintore in the Northern Territory. Their very survival depended upon their intimate knowledge of the land and the exact position of the next underground waterhole. The remarkable paintings of the Pintupi are in effect aerialview landscapes sometimes on a scale that reflects the vastness of their Country. These paintings map not only the physical landscape, but also the spiritual element and how the two interact. Indeed, the Pintupi lands are so remote that only as recently as 1984, a family group of nine Pintupi speakers walked out the desert into the small community at Kiwirrkura just inside the Western Australian border. These people had lived undetected and completely unaware of Western Culture. When they walked into the 20th Century, they brought with them intact Dreamings and lore that stretched back tens of thousands of years. The brother of respected painters Brandy and George "Hairbrush" Tjungarrayi and the late Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi, Willy Tjungurrayi was born about 1936 at Patjantja, southwest of Lake Mackay in the Northern Territory. He came in to Haast's Bluff in 1956 with other Pintupi people, and began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1976. By the 1980s Willy was recognized as a senior Pintupi painter, and he joined the movement of return to the Pintupi homelands. He now lives at Walungurru.
Willy Tjungurrayi's work has been collected by the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of NSW, the Holmes à Court collection, the Victorian Arts Centre, the Parliament House of Australia as well as many international collections.
Picture info
Artist
Willy Tjungurrayi
About artist Artwork
Created Year: 2009
Medium: Acrylic (Synthetic Polymer)
Genre: Aboriginal
Size: 240 × 191cm
Investment Grade: Blue Chip
Colour Palette: Bright
Catalogue: ABWT143RC
Medium: Acrylic (Synthetic Polymer)
Genre: Aboriginal
Size: 240 × 191cm
Investment Grade: Blue Chip
Colour Palette: Bright
Catalogue: ABWT143RC
Certified Valuation
$55,000.00
Sale Price
$55,000.00